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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward (search)
ications, that his plane were so contrived that when he did move from he Potomac he could move forward to Richmond without finding anything on his line of march but Quaker guns and abandoned fortifications. In Camp Beaufort Entrancements, At Yorktown, Va., April 11, 1862 The exciting event of the day has been a balloon reconnaissance by General Fitz John Porter, on a scale of rather larger magnitude an was intended, At five o'clock in the morning Gen Porter took his place in Professor Lowe's balloon. He supposed the usual number of ropes were attached to it, whereas there was only one, and a place in this, as was afterwards ascertained, had been burned by vitriol, used in generating gas. Taking his seat in the car, unaccompanied by any one, the rope was let out to nearly its full length --the length is about nine hundred yards--when suddenly shape went the cord and up went the balloon. This was an unexpected part of the programme. The men be onlooker up with astonishmen